Irrigated Orchards and Reservoir, Fort Collins, Colo. About 5 miles north of Ft. Collins is formed this fruit belt the only one in the region. It supplies fruit to surrounding country and into other states for several hundred miles. Apples, plums, grapes and cherries. Surrounding Ft. Collins is this valley of rich soil (lower than the fruit belt) are extensive forms of sugar beets and alfalfa, large numbers of sheep are fed here on beet pulp and alfalfa. In 1926 one farmer made over $200,000 feeding sheep. Land is high in price
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Irrigated Orchards and Reservoir, Fort Collins, Colo. About 5 miles north of Ft. Collins is formed this fruit belt the only one in the region. It supplies fruit to surrounding country and into other states for several hundred miles. Apples, plums, grapes and cherries. Surrounding Ft. Collins is this valley of rich soil (lower than the fruit belt) are extensive forms of sugar beets and alfalfa, large numbers of sheep are fed here on beet pulp and alfalfa. In 1926 one farmer made over $200,000 feeding sheep. Land is high in price.
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